quilibrium.
Roger Byrne, who lived in Rosenalis, Queen's County, Ireland, died of
excessive fatness at the age of fifty-four, weighing 52 stone. Percy
and Laurent speak of a young German of twenty who weighed 450 pounds.
At birth he weighed 13 pounds, at six months 42, and at four years 150
pounds. He was 5 feet 5 inches tall and the same in circumference.
William Campbell, the landlord of the Duke of Wellington in
Newcastle-on-Tyne, was 6 feet 4 inches tall and weighed 728 pounds. He
measured 96 inches around the shoulders, 85 inches around the waist,
and 35 inches around the calf. He was born at Glasgow in 1856, and was
not quite twenty-two when last measured. To illustrate the rate of
augmentation, he weighed 4 stone at nine months and at ten years 18
stone. He was one of a family of seven children. His appetite was not
more than the average, and he was moderate as regards the use of
liquors, but a great smoker Notwithstanding his corpulency, he was
intelligent and affable.

Miss Conley, a member of an American traveling circus, who weighed 479
pounds, was smothered in bed by rolling over on her face; she was
unable to turn on her back without assistance.

There was a girl who died at Plaisance near Paris in 1890 who weighed
470 pounds or more. In 1889 an impresario undertook to exhibit her; but
eight men could not move her from her room, and as she could not pass
through the door the idea was abandoned.

There was a colored woman who died near Baltimore who weighed 850
pounds, exceeding the great Daniel Lambert by 120 pounds. The journal
reporting this case quotes the Medical Record as saying that there was
a man in North Carolina, who was born in 1798, who was 7 feet 8 inches
tall and weighed over 1000 pounds, probably the largest man that ever
lived. Hutchison says that he Saw in the Infirmary at Kensington, under
Porter's care, a remarkable example of obesity. The woman was only just
able to walk about and presented a close resemblance to Daniel Lambert.
Obesity forced her to leave her occupation. The accumulation of fat on
the abdomen, back, and thighs was enormous.

According to a recent number of La Liberte, a young woman of
Pennsylvania, although only sixteen years old, weighs 450 pounds. Her
waist measures 61 inches in circumference and her neck 22 inches. The
same paper says that on one of the quays of Paris may be seen a
wine-shop keeper with whom this Pennsylvania girl could not compare. It
is said